| Its Official - Chocolate is good for you!!
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| msu79gt82 |
Sweet - pardon the pun:rolleyes:
See: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health...chocolate_x.htm
A small study suggests that eating dark chocolate can lower your blood pressure — a delicious instance in which something that tastes good might, for a change, be good for you, too.
Dark chocolate contains plant substances called polyphenols — ingredients scientists think are responsible for the heart-healthy attributes of red wine. Polyphenols also have been shown to lower blood pressure in animals.
Blood pressure remained pretty much unchanged in the group that ate white chocolate, which does not contain polyphenols. But after two weeks, systolic blood pressure — the top number — had dropped an average of five points in the dark-chocolate group. The lower, or diastolic, reading fell an average of almost two points.
Taubert said participants ate the chocolate bars instead of the sweets they usually consumed, and thus did not gain weight during the study.
The study received no industry funding — the researchers bought the chocolate themselves from the supermarket. |
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| ace3 |
| :2: :2: :2: I KNEW IT!! |
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| ByeByeChrysler |
:claphead:
I love chocolate,
brush after every meal :toothless |
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| Captain MDX |
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Originally posted by ByeByeChrysler
:claphead:
I love chocolate,
brush after every meal :toothless
Me too. Dark taste the best :5:!!!! I brush, don't worry :D |
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